Vet on the Go by Graham Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studies in Sydney. The potentially explosive journey setting the tone for a colourful life working with big farm animals in rural New Zealand as a travelling vet, ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen - The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly succes ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
An insight into what it's like to be a first year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
Walter Ralegh - Architect of Empire by Alan Gallay
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of ...Show more
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-s ...Show more
Warren Gatland: Pride and Passion My Autobiography by Warren Gatland
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Warren Gatland is one of the most renowned rugby coaches of the last 20 years, leading Wales to three Six Nations titles, two Grand Slams and a World Cup semi-final, and delivering two successful tours as Head Coach of the British and Irish Lions. As he leaves his post as Head Coach of Wales at the end ...Show more
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider h ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
We Swim to the Shark by Georgie Codd
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Georgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared. Even on dry land there's no escape: Georgie sees sharks in the dining room, squid tentacles in the street, has nightmares of being stranded at sea. Granny Codd understands. She has spent her life beside the water, but won't so much as paddle in it. ...Show more
We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it. - Archibald BaxterWe Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I.In 1915, when Baxter was 33, he was arrested, ...Show more